Deal Strategy

We collaborate closely with other teams within Deal Advisory to provide integrated services, including commercial, financial, operational and sustainability due diligence support. We also support clients across carve-outs and synergy assessments with extensive experience across various due diligence types.
 

Commercial Due Diligence (CDD): Assesses acquisition targets and market attractiveness, finding value creation opportunities, synergies and risks. This includes data driven analysis of the market including customers and the competitive landscape as well as the targets strategy and business plan.  

ESG Due Diligence (ESG-DD): Evaluates deal value and risks related to ESG policies. This includes review of the current ESG principles and policies against regulatory requirements and international treaties and maturity and materiality assessments.  

Operational Due Diligence (ODD): Review of business operations to understand operational capacity and sustainability, necessary investments and strategic fit.  

Carve-out: Supports the separation process of subsidiaries or business units, ensuring value maximization and risk mitigation.  

Synergy assessment: Evaluates the potential revenue and cost synergies as well as assumptions critical arising from a transaction via a structured risk- and opportunities-based approach.  

Recognizing and addressing separation and integration challenges is crucial for a successful deal. We help clients shape an organizational structure that fosters growth and talent management throughout the entire deal cycle, by enhancing value in integration and separation and ensuring seamless end-to-end processes across all operational areas. We have unparalleled experience with I&S initiatives and have been involved across the largest carve-outs of global Swedish companies over the past decade. 
 

Integration: Extends beyond deal closure as we provide crucial support for seamless integration of the new entity into the acquiring organization to generate and sustain deal value. Services include tasks such as development of integration framework and roadmap, conducting synergy assessments and ensuring Day-1 readiness for a smooth transition.  

Separation: Guides clients through the entire process, from defining separation options and understanding the potential impact on value creation, to developing and delivering robust separation plans including formulating separation strategies, Transition Service Agreements (TSAs) planning, dependency mapping, standalone cost assessment and One-off cost’s calculations. 

We assist in growth strategy and value creation, through various approaches, including assessing growth, market entry, go-to-market strategies, value creation and bespoke market studies. These services support clients define their strategic direction long-term growth.
 

Growth strategy: Identifies and implements prioritized growth agendas for long-term success, including corporate and business strategy as well as target screening.  

Market entry strategy: Explores strategic opportunities in new markets and determining the ability to win market share. 

Go-to-market strategy: Develops an effective and comprehensive approach to deliver products and services to the market.  

Value creation: Identifies opportunities for value creating in a deal and non-deal contexts by assessing the business and operating model. 

Market studies: Facilitates assessment of the market and identifies opportunities through market context, competitive landscape and consumer behaviour.